Our Own Prejudice Makes Us No Better Than Other People

Letters

May 20, 1992

IN THE past few weeks there has been some discrimination in Eustis that should never have happened. A restaurant franchise owner has a son who wears a unique hairstyle.

Since his father owns the restaurant, the son worked there one day a week. One day, someone saw the son's hairstyle and called the restaurant chain's main office, complaining that skinheads were working in Eustis, and they didn't like that. The company then called the owner and said his son, or anyone with a similar type of hairstyle, can no longer work there or even come in as customers.

Without an investigation of this complaint, the company took action, disregarding the fact that the owner's son was a decent person. This is not right.

How can we as Americans believe we are free to express individuality in a country where this is happening all around us? We may think that we are better than others, but by being prejudiced in this world of so many uncertainties, we are no better than the people we are judging.